Talk:Sbemail 150?!?

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Contents 1 Comments 2 Mask 3 Happy Hundred-and-fiftieth birthday, Jay! 4 Not Quite Sbemail 5 Up in your grill 6 Female Lappy 7 April Fools 8 Quick Drop to Basement 9 Susqui 10 Drawings and Eyes

Comments

This is not the new Strong Bad Email, it's just some cartoon hidden on the site that some freaky dude found somehow...right? — Darth Katana X ( )

This a brand new short, neither a hidden page or the 150th email. You might have to refresh your cache to see the update. - Joshua 05:46, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Oh, I see it now. The link on the wiki's just dead. But Lord is it crappy. I'm not giving up on the Chaps, though. They're just coming up with anything funny right now. This one's kind of like trying too hard. — Darth Katana X ( )

The HTML page doesn't have the typical sbemail prefix, although the flash does. I fixed it. Benabik 06:08, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

I noted it was rather... Simple to make, compared to most. Could just be my mind, but I figure if I'm making a double spectacular 150, why not make a two day short the week before, leaving a week and five to work on the big one-five-oh. ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 06:22, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Whatever. I thought it was very cute and funny. And a good way of stalling. Trelawney

I agree with Trelawney - some of you are acting way too snobbish and fickle. Okay, so it wasn't a great toon, but that shouldn't bother anyone much. It's pretty obvious that this was intended as a cop-out toon - filler material until the big 1-5-0. After all, they did the same sort of teaser for the Hundredth Email, and I thought that was a riot. And I don't know about you, but I'd rather get a throwaway toon rather than rush the TBC from a quality product. Besides, it shows that the creators are mindful of their fan's eagerness by trying to slake their appetite. Or gently tease their obsessive behavior.  :) Besides, it wasn't all bad. I liked the coining of the word "Sequicentenn-email." And wouldn't you rather know TBC are working on the email rather than some cryptic update like "Email Soon?" Compdude

I'll just say I laughed my you-know-what off. - Qermaq - (^T/C)  07:28, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Twees? — Bassbone (^{TALK CONT}) 07:41, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Flex it out! - Qermaq - (^T/C)  07:43, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

This is apparently the fifth time we hear Strong Bad Couch Mumbling. Once again, he sounds like Senor Cardgage. —2Fast2Furious 10:48, 27 March 2006

Mask

Anyone else think that mask looks an awful lot like the ones Shy Guys wear in the Mario games? — User:ACupOfCoffee@ 06:38, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

I was just going to ask that, but according to to the current real-world reference it's from Pink Floyd's The Wall. Gonna have to check on that. Compdude

That's exactly what I thought it was. There have been plenty of video game references in the past, so I figured it was a Shyguy mask. kowski

--Collin 07:13, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

I am 100 procent sure that they have the snout in Mario 64, at least.Lord-z 07:15, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes, they have a snout in Mario 64 that they shoot bullets from. --AlmostJinkies

Upon further research, the ones with the snout is called Snufits or Snifits. Lord-z 07:22, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Yup, Snifits. A type of Shyguy that can shoot bullets. That's the first thing that crossed my mind when I saw that mask, and I have no reason to doubt that that's exactly the reference intended. --Jay o'Lantern (Haunt) 07:45, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Further support of this, if needed, can be drawn from the fact that Super Mario Bros. 2/USA (or, more precisely, Doki Doki Panic upon which it was based), which was where Snifits first appeared, was set completely in a dream world. Goes along vaguely with Homestar as a representation of SB's innermost desires. Also the cloud on Homestar's shirt. Clouds were all over the place in that game. --TheNicestGuy 16:46, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about the confusion. The reason I labled the mask as a reference to Pink Floyd was because at the time Strong Sad was talking about "innermost desires". I agree that it is a reference to the Snifit now that I see the evidence. --Bobmario2 19:35, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Happy Hundred-and-fiftieth birthday, Jay!

Whoa... waitaminnit... if TBC release email 150 next Monday, then it coincides with my birthday! I... think I'm gonna go do something totally unrelated with trying to come up with the perfect email to send them so they answer it... --Jay o'Lantern (Haunt) 07:45, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Hooray-a for you. It should probably be better than my birthday toon. - Joshua 18:29, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Not Quite Sbemail

Should the "Not Quite Strong Bad Emails" be added to the categories? — Bassbone (^{TALK CONT}) 07:42, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

As far as I can tell, there is no such Category. There is a section of Strong Bad Emails by that name, and this email is already listed there. --TheNicestGuy 17:48, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Up in your grill

Would it be worth noting that "Up in your grill" refers to a location in standard storyboard layout?

Not completely sure I understand what you mean. If you mean the spot where "Up in your grill" appears corresponds to where you would find the location indicated on a typical storyboard, I would say it's narrowly unnoteworthy. One would not be likely to miss the joke if one was paying attention to the other boards. Just the fact that the text is listed in the transcript is enough, says me. --TheNicestGuy 16:50, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Female Lappy

It looks like the Female Lappy has officially made the subtle jump from a figment of Strong Bad's imagination to a real fixture within their universe. — It's dot com 09:05, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Didn't it already do that in one of the DVD intros? — Has Matt? (talk) 12:18, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, but no one trusts those. >.> - Joshua 13:37, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

April Fools

Next week is when the April Fools Day toon should come. I hope they don't get so caught up in email #150 that they forget possibly the best H*R holiday after Halloween. - Joshua 13:59, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Quick Drop to Basement

Hey, the transcript says that there's just a quick drop to the basement, but has anyone looked at those frames? Really, honest question. I don't have a flash decompiler, so someone else has to do it. It looks like it pans past something on its way down. Please report, with screenshots.--Bobo the King 14:54, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Since I can decompile Flash rather quickly, I can investigate this. But don't expect a full "report" and photographic documentation for a while. —THE PAPER ^PREEEOW 16:03, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

No such luck. The panning down frames are simply a bunch of blurred screenshots. I doubt you can decompile any details out of them. - Joshua 16:04, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Well, here's a screenshot I pulled (posted also on Talk:House of the Brothers Strong). It looks like you can see a crawlspace or a basement window in between floors, but that's about all. Trey56 16:36, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

I see darker wood in the center with two blue labels on it. Like, left from construction. - Joshua 16:51, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

That's one thick floor too. - Qermaq - (^T/C)  17:23, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

I think that's meant to be a perspective view through the floor, with the joists running parallel to the camera angle. The lighter framing is the ends of the joists and of the planking, which face us. The "darker wood" is the sides of the joists and tops of the lower planking which recede away from us. And the "blue labels" I think are just the far side of the inner wall. I'd call that cinder-block gray. --TheNicestGuy 17:54, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Susqui

Strong Sad pronounces "sesquicentenn-email" "sus-qui-sen-ten-ee-mail" for some reason. Notable, and how? - Qermaq - (^T/C)  18:10, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

I was pretty young, but I seem to remember that when I was living in Arkansas during its sesquicentennial, it would sometimes be hastily pronounced that way, particularly by those with more pronounced Arkansan accents (which is related to a Georgia accent). But Strong Sad's not the type to hastily pronounce anything (except Moleskine), so that's probably not relevant. He could be jumbling it up with the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania, although that would be more of a Strong Bad schtick. --TheNicestGuy 19:44, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Drawings and Eyes

There appears to be some disagreement (based on the edit history) of whether Coach Z and Homestar Runner should be included. I personally think no... A drawing of a person doesn't count as an appearance of them. Perhaps some consensus should be reached here so that people don't edit it back and forth.

Also, does that pear actually have Googly Eyes? If so, the transcript should say so, IMHO. If not, it's not a reference. I think it does, but again, don't want it to be edited back out again.

Benabik 19:52, 27 March 2006 (UTC)